Improvement in combined reaper and harvester



A. G. DESPAROIS & L. F. CHRISTIAN. Combined Reaper and Harvester.

No. 220,354. Patented Oct. 7,1879.

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rake-barE acts in its movement around the cam c to cause the compressor to return to its former position, ready for another gavel.

A self-binder may be attached to the machine if desired.

The formation of the reel-head in one piece of metal is an important feature of our invention, as it enables us to make it much lighter and stronger without adding to the expense.

By our arrangement of the compressor H and rake-bar E, operating simultaneously upon the gavel, we are enabled to make the machine shorter than the ordinary reaper, thereby enabling the persons who bind the grain (when a self-binder is not used) to ride upon the machine without the necessity of altering the position of the driving-wheels to counterbalance their weigh t.

Under some conditions of the grain it is necessary to throw the gavels from the machine unbound and allow it to lie until it is dry enough, and then bind it up by hand. When this is the case our arrangement of the compressor and rake is found to operate very satisfactorily, as the gavel is discharged upon the ground in an even and straight shape, so that no time is lost in arranging the straws when binding. This even disposition of the straw cannot be obtained, however, unless the compressor and rake operate simultaneously and at right angles to each other.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The compressor H, provided with a long flat surface, to be presented bodily at all times in its action against the gavel of grain at right angles to the rake-bar E, and arranged to travel in a line convergent with the back M of the segmental table B, in combination with the rake-bar E, having the flexible teeth 2', substantially as set forth.

2. The combination and arrangement of the standard I), reel-head F d, rake-head b, and connecting-ring 1), arranged and operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANTOINE G. DESPAROIS. LOUIS FRANK CHRISTIAN.

Witnesses:

C. N. \VOODWARD, LOUIS 

